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  • Kaiser: Faith in Obamacare plummets to just 35%

    By Paul Bedard | 06/19/13 05:25 PM

    The popularity of Obamacare has crashed to its lowest level in nearly two years, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Kaiser's monthly tracking poll found that just 35 percent have a favorable view of the health reform being put into place Jan. 1 while 43 percent view it...

  • Bloomberg: Sorry for calling Boston Marathon bombing suspect a victim

    By Paul Bedard | 06/19/13 03:40 PM

    After his group Mayors Against Illegal Guns called alleged Boston Marathon bomber a victim of gun violence Tuesday, co-founder New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized, claiming that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was mistakenly included on a list of shooting victims. His office blamed a Slate.com list...

  • Bill and Hillary Clinton favored over Obama

    By Paul Bedard | 06/19/13 03:30 PM

    Freed from the policy decisions that used to sap their popularity, Bill and Hillary Clinton now have a higher favorability rating than President Obama, who continues to languish in the mid-40 percent range. The weekly Economist/YouGov poll provided to Secrets pegged Obama's favorable rating at...

  • US Chamber: Social Security, Medicare 'doomed' without $40 trillion more

    By Paul Bedard | 06/19/13 02:35 PM

    Tired of waiting for President Obama to act, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Wednesday unveiled a sweeping new campaign to convince Congress and the public that the nation's entitlement programs are "doomed" if radical reforms worth $40 trillion aren't made now. "Entitlements are on a doomed...

  • Bloomberg's anti-gun group calls Boston Marathon bomber a victim

    By Paul Bedard | 06/19/13 12:15 PM

    He was the alleged mastermind of the mid-April Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and maimed 264, but the anti-gun lobby organized by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has a different label for Tamerlan Tsarnaev: gun violence victim. It happened Tuesday...

  • After 4 years of Michelle's anti-obesity campaign, America is still getting fatter

    By Paul Bedard | 06/19/13 09:20 AM

    Despite first lady Michelle Obama's four-year campaign to wean the nation off Big Macs and Big Gulps, obesity in America rose last year, continuing an unbroken 15-year streak, according to new figures from the Centers for Disease Control. In an early release of some data in its 2012 National...

  • In Berlin, Obama will invoke JFK, Reagan to push climate change

    By Paul Bedard | 06/18/13 03:55 PM

    Following a well-worn path to Germany's Brandenburg Gate, President Obama plans to invoke America's most important speakers at the Berlin landmark -- John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan -- as he seeks to revive his promise to curb climate change. "Any time a U.S. president speaks in Berlin it's...

  • Obama thwarted: 'No indication' he will win back House

    By Paul Bedard | 06/18/13 11:30 AM

    President Obama's nonstop fundraising for congressional Democrats is building a huge campaign war chest for next fall, but there is little hope that his party will win back control of the House and make Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaker again, according to an exhaustive new analysis. But the report...

  • Zogby study: Children of baby boomers embrace change, reject GOP

    06/18/13 07:37 AM

    Children of baby boomers are not the lazy video-game playing sloths portrayed in the media but eager-to-work and civic-minded 19- to 34-year-olds who consider themselves “citizens of Planet Earth” more than any generation in history, according to the most comprehensive study of “First...

  • Lights out: House plan would protect nation's electricity from solar flare, nuclear bomb

    By Paul Bedard | 06/17/13 06:55 PM

    Amid growing fears of a massive electromagnetic pulse hit from either a solar flare or a terrorist nuclear bomb, House Republicans on Tuesday will unveil a plan to save the nation's electric grid from an attack that could mean lights out for 300 million Americans. Dubbed the Secure...


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